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DetlefK

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1. Your (religious) beliefs end where my (religious) beliefs begin.
Tue Jul 7, 2015, 07:56 AM
Jul 2015

Why would the beliefs a stranger has on a person be given a higher priority than the beliefs the person itself has on itself?

What gives this stranger the right to expand his influence in a way that compromises my influence? I am my own sovereign until I decide to lend this sovereignty to a ruler.

Accommodating somebody else's beliefs is purely a courtesy, from one person to the other. It is no inherent right.

There were a shit-ton of religions in ancient times and people tolerated each other. Not because they liked each other. Simply because it made life easier and avoided unnecessary hostilities. People didn't go to war for religion back then. They went to war for political reasons.

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